Fighting malware and spam

VB2009 Geneva - slides

The following are the presentation slides shown by speakers at the VB2009 conference in Geneva. We are still waiting for some of the slides to be supplied to us - these will be added when they are submitted to us. The slides are arranged in chronological order of the presentations. All files are in pdf format unless otherwise specified.

Corporate stream

• Pascal Lointier ('Cyber-insurance: a financial perspective to incident response')
• Juraj Malcho ('Is there a lawyer in the lab?')
• Amir Fouda ('Malware on a mission')
• Raoul Chiesa ('Profiling hackers: real data, real experiences, wrong myths')
• Bryan Lu ('I am not a numero! Assessing global security threat levels')
• Righard Zwienenberg ('Anti-Malware Testing Standards Oragnization (AMTSO): the status right now')
• Darya Bronnikova and Anna Volodina ('Gimme all your money!')
• Darya Gudkova and Andrey Nikishin ('Spam and legislation')
• Greg Day ('Modern day magic on the Internet')
• Stefan Tanase ('When Web 2.0 sneezes, everyone gets sick')
• Steven Ginn ('Hitting the 'up-to-date' bull's eye') [.ppt]
• Robert McArdle ('Volume of threat: the AV update deployment bottleneck')
• Thomas Mandl, Florian Nentwich and Ulrich Bayer ('ANUBIS - ANalysing Unknown BinarieS - the automatic way')
• Martin Overton ('Virtual machines for real malware capture and analysis')

Technical stream

• Aditya Kapoor and Rachit Mathur ('Challenges in kernel-mode memory scanning')
• Kurt Baumgartner ('AntiRE en masse')
• Mudassar Farooq ('PE-Probe: leveraging packer detection and structural information to detect malicious portable executables')
• Chun Feng ('I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then')
• Mihai Chiriac ('Tales from cloud nine')
• David Maciejak and Guillaume Lovet ('Botnet-powered SQL injection attacks: a deeper look within')
• Carsten Willems ('Detecting malicious documents with combined static and dynamic analysis')
• Martijn Grooten ('The CURSE of anti-spam testing')
• Alexandru Catalin Cosoi ('A fractal approach to social network spam detection')
• John Graham-Cumming ('JavaScript security: the elephant running in your browser')
• Vijay Seshadri ('Reputation: a new chapter in malware protection')
• Candid Wüest and Elia Florio ('Firefox malware - when browsers attack')

'Last-minute' technical papers

• Dmitry Bestuzhev ('Brazil: land of plentiful bankers')
• Marius van Oers ('iPhone v3 malware vector')
• Ivan Macalintal ('The real face of Koobface')
• Costin Raiu and Morton Swimmer ('Twarfing: malicious tweets')
• Sumesh Jaiswal ('Human-based computation: how crowd-sourcing can solve some of the trickiest security problems')
• Minseong Kim ('WebStalker: detection of malicious pages through monitoring web browser behaviour')
• Igor Muttik ('Connecting the AV industry')

Sponsor presentations

• Randy Abrams (ESET) ('You can teach a new user old tricks ... old users learn too')

Reserve papers

• Anoirel Issa ('Fragmented distribution attack')

Poll

Virus Bulletin

• Social networking meets social engineering
• Flying solo
• Geneva convention
• 7th German Anti Spam Summit 2009
• Anti-phishing landing page: turning a 404 into a teachable moment
• An update on spamming botnets: are we losing the war?
• Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition SP2 x86